“Chronicles at one point even had Noam Chomsky writing articles for them.”
I remember that now that you mention it. It was amusing in a way, Chomsky is to the left of Bernie Sanders. He is a legitimately important scholar in the world of linguistics in spite of being a Commie.
I began reading Chronicles while Tyrmand was still there, but most of the time Fleming ran the show. The “other” Thomas Fleming is a very good historian and I highly recommend his book on the forgotten history that led to the Civil War... “A Disease In The Public Mind”... a great read if you’re a student of The Late Unpleasantness.
The ‘cracker’ sobriquet was originally applied to Old South Floridians for the sound the bullwhip made when they were herding cattle. Even today Florida has one of the biggest cattle industries in the country.
Thanks for the explanation. It’s clear you know the magazine and people behind it.
I fell out with them about the time Fleming was going to a church (might be in Falls Church) where a major traitor shared his place of worship. I think they were both member of some group at the time.
Did not blame the Church, there is no known connection of Fleming and the other guy. But I grew weary with the focus of the magazine. I had flirted with Libertarianism at that point and when I actually met a “Big L” Libertarian, that ended it for me.
Cracker barrel Philosopher Doesn’t that refer to the barrels that much was shipped in during the nineteenth and early 20th century?
A cracker barrel was a barrel that the local men sat on at the local store (which often was a gathering place) with perhaps a card or checkers game going.
Sort of like the gatherings of men at the gates in the Bible?
I followed Chomsky in Z Magazine and of course the Nation and the Progressive.
In some ways I could see how some of his writings would fit in at the older Chronicles.